A killer serving life has been jailed for three years for beating up another prisoner with a pool cue. Scott Fowler was covered in blood after the attack in his cell at HMP Shotts in Lanarkshire, a court heard.
Kirk McIntyre, 54, was found guilty of assaulting Fowler, 41, to his severe injury on August 8, 2020. McIntyre is serving a minimum of 20 years for the murder of Frederick McGettigan in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, in 2017.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that the 51-year-old was wrongly blamed for breaking into the home of McIntyre’s cousin Joanne Threshie, a lawyer.
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